Preface "Monuments to Courage" is a history of Beaver County from the time of the arrival of the first settlers on February 6, 1856, to the Centennial year of the state of Utah, 1947. The collection of the material and its publication was a...

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SOCIAL LIFE IN PIONEER DAYS
HOME DRAMATICS IN BEAVER
One of the first dramatic companies in Beaver was managed and sponsored by Robert Stoney and Henry Blackner. Jenny Harris and Sarah Ann Stoney, both talented and lovely young women,...

This institution was responsible for the substantial growth of Beaver more than any other factor. Most of the prominent buildings erected in Beaver during the '70s and '80s owe their existence to employment at this factory. It also proved a great...

Quorum. The President selected for this organization was John Hughes, while Charles Wesley Wendall was selected for clerk.
JOHN R. MURDOCK CALLED TO BEAVER
Owing to factional differences, lack of unity, and the inability of the local authorities to...

nary, 1877, and the General Conference of the Church held at that place in April following, the reorganization of the various stakes and wards began. Accordingly, at the Stake Quarterly Conference held in Beaver, July 25-26, a time of spiritual...

was apportioned into two school districts. Beaver constituted District No. 1, Minersville and Lower Beaver, District No. 2. Later, Beaver was apportioned into eight school districts. An act regulating the manufacture, sale or other disposal of...

CHAPTER SEVENTEEN MILFORD ITS EARLY HISTORY Springing from a few shacks built as a matter of con-venience by ore haulers and stockmen, the little city of Milford has struggled to a position of prominence in Beaver County. Today, with a population...

that of being the first car foreman, rip track foreman, and engine carpenter. His interest in civic affairs was keen and he was voted a member of the town board, member of the school board, and later, mayor. His wife and other women were...

CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE DAUGHTERS OF UTAH PIONEERS PURPOSE A very note-worthy organization in the state is called "Daughters of Utah Pioneers." It is composed of women whose ancestors came to the West before the advent of the railway in 1869. The...

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unarticulated skeletons, and other anatomical preparations, as well as by charts, manikins, and the dissection of animals.
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a few carefully selected groups of facts taking the place of the more vague and general consideration of the great mass of history.
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General History. The work of this course is based on original documents and extracts from contemporaneous writers. While the ground usually gone over in General History is covered, certain great movements and important...

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General History. The work of this course is based on original documents and extracts from contemporaneous writers. While the ground usually gone over in General History is covered, certain...